Vercel vs Cloudflare

Side-by-side cost comparison — enter your workload and see which platform is cheaper for your traffic.

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2. Fine-tune (optional)

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Cloudflare is cheaper by $54.96/mo (92%) for this workload. Switch presets or adjust the numbers above to see how the gap changes at different scales.

VercelPro

$60.00/mo
Pro plan (3 seats)
$20/seat × 3 — includes $60 total usage credit
$60.00
Fast Data Transfer
214.6 GB / 1 TB included
incl.
Edge Requests
7.90 M / 10 M included
incl.
Fast Origin Transfer
7.63 GB × $0.06/GB
$0.46
Function Invocations
0.40 M × $0.60/M
$0.24
Active CPU
~8.9 CPU-hrs (40% of duration assumed)
$1.14
Provisioned Memory
22.2 GB-hrs
$0.24
Build Execution (Turbo)
160 min × $0.126/min
$20.16
Monthly usage credit
$22.23 of $60 total credit applied
$-22.23
Active CPU estimated at 40% of total duration — typical for I/O-bound Next.js routes. Estimate uses 3 deploying seats — each additional seat adds $20/month and $20 credit. Excludes ISR writes/reads, Image Optimization, Edge Config, and WAF — can add 10–30% on image/ISR-heavy apps.
Rates verified 2026-05 — Vercel pricing page

CloudflareWorkers Paid

Lower cost
$5.04/mo
Workers Paid (base)
10M requests + 30M CPU-ms included
$5.00
Worker Requests
0.40 M / 10 M included
incl.
Worker CPU Time
~32.0 M CPU-ms / 30 M included
$0.04
R2 Storage
5 GB (within 10 GB free tier)
incl.
CDN / Egress
Free — Cloudflare charges no egress
incl.
CDN bandwidth and egress are free — structural advantage over Vercel and Netlify. R2 ops (1M Class A writes, 10M Class B reads free/month) not itemized — within free tier for most SaaS workloads. KV writes ($5/M) and D1 writes ($1/M) not modeled; add if your app uses them heavily.
Rates verified 2026-05 — Cloudflare pricing page

What Vercel excels at

  • Zero-configuration Next.js deployment — every new framework feature works on day one.
  • Preview deployments for every pull request, out of the box.
  • Fluid Compute: pay only for active CPU time, not wall-clock duration — I/O wait is free.
  • 1 TB bandwidth included on Pro before any overage kicks in.
  • Built-in Skew Protection prevents version mismatch errors on deploys (Pro+).

What Cloudflare excels at

  • Zero egress fees — bandwidth is free on all plans, including R2 object storage reads.
  • 300+ edge locations globally; typical latency under 50ms worldwide.
  • CPU-time billing model: I/O wait does not count toward your bill.
  • Integrated ecosystem: R2 (storage), D1 (SQLite), KV, Queues, Durable Objects.
  • Built-in DDoS protection and WAF on the same plan.
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